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You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!